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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)

Storm & Convective Forecast

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Issued 2018-08-06 21:33:50
Valid: 07/08/2018 00z to 08/08/2018 00z

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK - TUESDAY 7TH AUGUST 2018

Synopsis

North Atlantic upper trough will begin to amplify S and SE across the far west of Britain during Tuesday, with a strengthening upper flow across the UK – as SWly jet stream shifts S and E across the UK. Ahead of the jet streak, a weak surface cold front will progress slowly east, to lie North York Moors - West Sussex by 00z Weds. A very hot, humid and increasingly unstable airmass ahead of the cold front across SE England and East Anglia is forecast to destabilise and produce thunderstorms in the evening here before the front clears through and introduces cooler and more stable air.

… SE ENGLAND and E ANGLIA …

Surface-based CAPE will build up through the day due to surface heating of humid plume in conjunction with lapse rates steepening in association with advection north of EML (elevated mixed layer) aloft. However, this surface instability is likely to remain capped. However, a shortwave in the strengthening flow aloft will move NE from Bay of Biscay area in the morning crossing NW France in the afternoon. The increased lift by the shortwave along NW edge of hot and humid plume over France and SE UK combined with increasing mid-level instability as dry air intrusion punches NE overlapping plume, is forecast by many models to break out thunderstorms across Brittany and Normandy by early evening, before spreading / expanding NE across SE England then East Anglia through the evening.

Thunderstorms are likely to be elevated, though 40-50 knots of 0-6km shear forecast will allow storm organisation into clusters, perhaps even an MCS passing over parts of Kent and eastern E Anglia, so there is potential for strong storms that may bring locally intense downpours leading to flash-flooding, isolated hail, strong wind gusts and frequent cloud-to-ground lightning. These storms should clear away NE into the North Sea after midnight.

Issued by: Nick Finnis

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  • Location: Aviemore
  • Location: Aviemore

New thread, to cover the storm risk tonight and any ongoing risks through the next few days or so, as the settled spell of weather breaks down. 

If you just want to moan about the lack of storms in your backyard, please head to the no storms thread:

 

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  • Location: South East UK, Reigate
  • Weather Preferences: Wake me up when the storms arrive
  • Location: South East UK, Reigate

Thanks for the new thread.

I'm eyeing the developments over west and northern France. Radar echoes show fast building showers, and the airflow direction is good. I have a faintly good feeling about this for my area.

(Famous last words...)  

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  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, snow, and wind storms
  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)

Come on, Hastings!!! If we have our 5th bust this year tonight...

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  • Location: South East UK, Reigate
  • Weather Preferences: Wake me up when the storms arrive
  • Location: South East UK, Reigate

And the Met Office have issued a warning for the SE. This will be interesting (well, for me), because Estofex has a much reduced risk compared to other forecast models. I'm happy to go with Nick here (above), and the Met Office.

However, I must be cautious (as per my name). A week last Friday, the storms actually parted and went west and east of Reigate!  While others enjoyed storms, we got a piddly shower of rain. :angry:

 

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  • Location: Godalming
  • Weather Preferences: Plumes and streamers
  • Location: Godalming
3 minutes ago, StormLoser said:

And the Met Office have issued a warning for the SE. This will be interesting (well, for me), because Estofex has a much reduced risk compared to other forecast models. I'm happy to go with Nick here (above), and the Met Office.

However, I must be cautious (as per my name). A week last Friday, the storms actually parted and went west and east of Reigate!  While others enjoyed storms, we got a piddly shower of rain. 

 

I was wondering if Sevenoaks or Box Hill Dorking would be a good place to head.

Planned to have dinner at my dad’s place tonight so some timing predictions would defo help this time, but it looks like there’s a little uncertainty on that.

Reckon i’ll Hang out there til about 8ish and then head round the M25 as it starts to gets dark and see what happens.

would be lovely for storms to come to us for a change though

 

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  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, snow, and wind storms
  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)

http://www.convectiveweather.co.uk/forecast.php?date=2018-08-07

 

Day 1 Convective Outlook

VALID 06:00 UTC Tue 07 Aug 2018 - 05:59 UTC Wed 08 Aug 2018

ISSUED 08:30 UTC Tue 07 Aug 2018

ISSUED BY: Dan

On the forward side of the sharpening Atlantic upper trough, a warm and humid airmass will be drawn northwards from Iberia towards SE England on Tuesday. Initially profiles look rather dry and capped (to surface-based convection), but an approaching shortwave from Biscay should gradually moisten profiles by Tuesday afternoon, providing a lifting mechanism.

 
A gradual increase in elevated showers / thunderstorms seems likely during the late afternoon and through evening hours, beginning over the English Channel and spreading northeastwards - generally clearing the coast to the North Sea soon after 00z.
 
Given the magnitude of instability, steep mid-level lapse rates, mid-level dry intrusion and sheared profiles, early cells for the first few hours could become sufficiently organised to produce frequent lightning and perhaps hail up to 2.5cm in diameter. As the evening progresses, the main threats will become mainly heavy rain, with lightning frequency probably also reducing. Therefore areas with the best overlap of ingredients for hail / frequent lightning will be Kent / Sussex and perhaps east Essex - a low-end MDT has been issued to better highlight this, though there is still some uncertainty as to how widespread activity will be.
 
A few isolated lightning strikes may also be possible over the Celtic Sea late in the night.
 
 
 
 
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  • Location: Godalming
  • Weather Preferences: Plumes and streamers
  • Location: Godalming
5 minutes ago, LightningLover said:

http://www.convectiveweather.co.uk/forecast.php?date=2018-08-07

 

Day 1 Convective Outlook

VALID 06:00 UTC Tue 07 Aug 2018 - 05:59 UTC Wed 08 Aug 2018

ISSUED 08:30 UTC Tue 07 Aug 2018

ISSUED BY: Dan

On the forward side of the sharpening Atlantic upper trough, a warm and humid airmass will be drawn northwards from Iberia towards SE England on Tuesday. Initially profiles look rather dry and capped (to surface-based convection), but an approaching shortwave from Biscay should gradually moisten profiles by Tuesday afternoon, providing a lifting mechanism.

 
A gradual increase in elevated showers / thunderstorms seems likely during the late afternoon and through evening hours, beginning over the English Channel and spreading northeastwards - generally clearing the coast to the North Sea soon after 00z.
 
Given the magnitude of instability, steep mid-level lapse rates, mid-level dry intrusion and sheared profiles, early cells for the first few hours could become sufficiently organised to produce frequent lightning and perhaps hail up to 2.5cm in diameter. As the evening progresses, the main threats will become mainly heavy rain, with lightning frequency probably also reducing. Therefore areas with the best overlap of ingredients for hail / frequent lightning will be Kent / Sussex and perhaps east Essex - a low-end MDT has been issued to better highlight this, though there is still some uncertainty as to how widespread activity will be.
 
A few isolated lightning strikes may also be possible over the Celtic Sea late in the night.
 
 
 
 
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If I was a fan of being under risk area edging lines this would be a bumper year of fun for me

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  • Location: South East UK, Reigate
  • Weather Preferences: Wake me up when the storms arrive
  • Location: South East UK, Reigate

Thanks for the forecast Dan!

I'll go out and tighten the bolts on my lightning conductor array....   ?️

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  • Location: Benfleet, South Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and breezy with a bit of cloud, about 20C
  • Location: Benfleet, South Essex

Convective Weather has me on the border of the MDT and SLGT. Last time it was spot on...

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  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, snow, and wind storms
  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)
5 minutes ago, Thunderstruck said:

Convective Weather has me on the border of the MDT and SLGT. Last time it was spot on...

Indeed, which is why i'm slightly more hopeful for East Sussex this time around! CW's forecasts are usually very accurate.

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  • Location: Worthing, West Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Anything unusual
  • Location: Worthing, West Sussex

All year I have been on the edge of risk areas, today is no different. 

Will be surprised if we got anything here. 

But you've got to be in it to win it...and I'm just about in it. 

 

 

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  • Location: Sunderland
  • Weather Preferences: Hot Summer, Snowy winter and thunderstorms all year round!
  • Location: Sunderland

hmm,, interesting.....rapid elevated convection developing considerably further west than modeled in the English Channel.....might even scrape something IMBY..

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
8 minutes ago, Azazel said:

strike north west of Crowborough?

Spurious I think, any lightning confined to Brittany and far north of France for now, though some bands of elevated convection with some rain falling out of them now moving in across IoW and central south England coast

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11 minutes ago, Nick F said:

Spurious I think, any lightning confined to Brittany and far north of France for now, though some bands of elevated convection with some rain falling out of them now moving in across IoW and central south England coast

Agree, all modeled by euro4 and hirlam yesterday actually, focus is more south currently this is all pre muck to the more conductive conditions 

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  • Location: Hull
  • Weather Preferences: Cold Snowy Winters, Hot Thundery Summers
  • Location: Hull

Interesting looking at the lightning and rainfall radars, is all the unstable area extending out a bit further west?

Some crud now passing over Southampton with some rather dark clouds but nothing dramatic.

The storms over NW France don't look too bad however....

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: warehamwx.co.uk
  • Location: Dorset

Radar showing me under rain, but, virga fallstreak confirms it isn't reaching the ground.

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  • Location: South East UK, Reigate
  • Weather Preferences: Wake me up when the storms arrive
  • Location: South East UK, Reigate

Destabilizing nicely over here. I see some echoes from showers moving north towards me, but small fry at the moment.

Looking wider afield, the compression from the encroaching front is beginning to make itself felt. It might shove all the interesting weather further east before it develops over here.

But I confess it has pepped up in France much further west than I thought it would. I still have my fingers crossed for seeing some action later today.

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  • Location: Emsworth, Hampshire
  • Location: Emsworth, Hampshire

Rain just managed to throw it down here for a couple of minutes, oddly I'm out of that first line of precipitation which passed with no rain.

Clearly elevated for now.

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  • Location: Hull
  • Weather Preferences: Cold Snowy Winters, Hot Thundery Summers
  • Location: Hull

Contrary to the posts above we had heavy rain in Southampton but it only lasted 10 mins

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  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, snow, and wind storms
  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)

Large convective raindrops falling currently.

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  • Location: Tilgate, West Sussex
  • Location: Tilgate, West Sussex

A few drops of rain here in Crawley/Gatwick, that'll probably all we'll get here! 

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